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Out from under wraps
Florence Beaugé
, June 2018
The Saudi crown prince wants to change his country’s image, starting with its women. But his reforms are not fast enough for many, and arrests this May show just how fragile they are.
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Corbyn’s Labour may kill Plaid
Simon Jones
, June 2018
‘I need your vote’: Plaid Cymru leader Leanne Wood campaigns in Rhondda, south Wales, before the May 2015 general election. Matthew Horwood · Getty When Carwyn Jones, Wales’s First Minister and Welsh (...)
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Trump’s Iranian diktat
Ibrahim Warde
, June 2018
Donald Trump made his money by reneging on and renegotiating contracts to his own advantage. But in the case of the Iran nuclear deal and the return of sanctions, peace in the Middle East is at (...)
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Africa’s whistleblowers
Olivier Piot
, June 2018
Those who denounce corruption face hardship and physical danger even when there’s a legal framework that should protect and guarantee them a fair hearing.
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Special Report: World Cup 2018
June 2018
As football fans across the world follow the 2018 World Cup in Russia, we celebrate the world’s favourite sport by sharing a selection of football articles from our (...)
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Korea
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Trump
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Corbyn
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Hollande
remembers;
Mexico
’s incorruptible;
Africa
’s whistleblowers;
Saudi women
out from wraps;
France
, when the factory closes;
Mozambique
, taking on agri-industry;
Jaffa
, staying on…
American wars and self-decline
Open Page
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Tom Engelhardt
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TomDispatch, 14 June 2018
Think of it as the all-American version of the human comedy: a great power that eternally knows what the world needs and offers copious advice with a tone deafness that would be humorous, if it (...)
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Who was the enemy under Hollande?
Serge Halimi
, June 2018
From the pens of François Hollande and his government come explanations for what they couldn’t do in power, plus a lot of grumbling about how badly they were treated by the rich and powerful they (...)
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Mexico’s incorruptible challenger
Renaud Lambert
, June 2018
Anti-corruption is just one policy of Mexico’s presidential candidate, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, though it has great appeal when people are spending up to a third of their income on (...)
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In need of women’s labour
F. B.
, June 2018
In Crown Prince Mohammad Bin Salman’s development plan, Vision 2030, the objective is to transition from a rentier economy to a productive one. The Saudi economy, entirely dependent on hydrocarbons, is (...)
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The Palestinians who never left
Stuart Braun
, June 2018
Northern Ireland: memory or amnesia?
S. J.
, June 2018
While the UK and Irish Republic discuss the post-Brexit border, in Northern Ireland, despite (...)
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Corbyn’s Labour may kill Plaid
S. J.
, 1 June 2018
When Carwyn Jones, Wales’s First Minister and Welsh Labour leader, resigned this April, it made no difference to the Labour-dominated political map; he knows Plaid Cymru, the main (...)
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France goes off the rails
Benoît Duteurtre
, 3 May 2018
France is in the grip of rolling strikes by its rail unions in response to a series of contradictory proposals for railway reforms, as part of President Macron’s drive to shrink the (...)
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How to escape feedback
David Napier
, 3 May 2018
The first experiment on the effect of feedback on the social amplification of messages meant to make Americans react to the threat of nuclear attack. Winston Churchill once said: (...)
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Friction between Putin and Kadyrov
Régis Genté
, 29 March 2018
Ramzan Kadyrov ruled Chechnya for eight years without Russian president Vladimir Putin publicly rebuking him, until December 2014, when armed insurgents killed 24 in central (...)
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maps
Mozambique: the lie of the land
Agnès Stienne, June 2018
Fukushima: seven years on
Cécile Marin, April 2018
Japan’s bluefin tuna
Agnès Stienne, January 2018
Iran’s far-reaching Shia networks
Cécile Marin, January 2018
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Change in Eastern Europe?
A. U.
, 5 June 2018
The 2018-19 elections in Russia and Ukraine will change Eastern Europe’s political landscape. That could mean new chances for an end to (or escalation of) the war between (...)
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Stateless, and at risk of the weather
Alex Randall
, 22 May 2018
Abu Siddique will be counted twice in this year’s refugee statistics. He’ll be counted once for fleeing Myanmar across the border to Bangladesh. And a second time for moving to (...)
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‘We want a civil state, not a civil war!’
Amir-Hussein Radjy
, 16 May 2018
Lebanon’s elections on 6 May show that, despite a desire for change, little will alter for now. Western media called the result a sweeping victory for Hizbullah, but the real lesson (...)
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The view from Tehran
Camelia Entekhabifard
, 26 April 2018
While the world waits for US president Donald Trump’s decision on the nuclear accord with Iran and European leaders visit the White House in quick succession, we read little about (...)
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Podcasts
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30 May 2018
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2 April 2018
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8 March 2018
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Jens Malling, 5 February 2016
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